Long exposure photography can create interesting and inspiring effects. With a slow shutter speed more light is absorbed, which is often helpful for night photography. Moving objects and light create some amazing images, as you will see in this showcase of 30 photos taken by various photographers. While it is not easy, long exposure photography can be fun to practice. To see a larger version of any of the photos please click on the image and you will be led to the source.
Photo credit: Aleksander Martic
Anyone who has maintained a blog for even a few months or more knows that there are frustrating times in the life of a blogger where growth seems to come to a complete standstill. The nature of blogging involves adding new content to the site and continually picking up new readers through that content. However, there are times when common measurements like visitors, pageviews, subscribers, and even income are extremely difficult to improve upon.
These blogging plateaus typically lead to frustration. In this post we’ll look at some things that you can do when you’re on one of those plateaus to help make that push and get things moving forward again.
A lot of bloggers incorporate goals into their daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly routines. Goals can be highly effective because most bloggers are working on their own, and there’s no boss or anyone else to keep them motivated. In this type of situation, goals can help by encouraging the blogger despite that lack of accountability to others.
Typical goals for a blogger might include:
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As most designers know by now Dribbble has become the pulse of all digital artists. Every day there are hundreds of new shots uploaded and shared on the invite-only social community. I highly recommend checking out their tags gallery to see if you can pickup your own inspiration.
Illustrations are some of the most common form of artwork. But taking things into the digital platform includes software such as Adobe Illustrator and tablet pads. Thus this style is very complicated, and outright difficult to master. The showcase below contains some of the most popular illustrations I’ve ever seen! If you enjoy the post let us know your thoughts in the comment wall.
When you spend a lot of time in front of your monitor, like web designers do, it’s nice to have wallpaper that will provide some inspiration. Since many people use two screens in their workspace we decided to put together this collection of dual monitor wallpapers. Each has a large resolution that is intended to display well on dual screen setups. If you see something that you would like to download, please click on the image and you will be led to the source.
The wallpapers shown here come from two great sources where you can find even more by browsing on your own. They are InterfaceLift and deviantART. At InterfaceLift you can browse by resolution, and they even have a section for 3-screen wallpapers.
Most web designers use Photoshop to create the visual design before moving on to coding the site. There is an excellent selection of tutorials available that show the process of designing sites/pages in Photoshop, and if you are looking to learn more or improve your skills in this area, these tutorials can be very helpful. In this post we’ll link to 35 quality tutorials for creating layouts in Photoshop.
You may also be interested in this post from our archives: 35 Tutorials for Creating Website Layouts in Photoshop.
Design a Textured Outdoors Website in Photoshop
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In this showcase we are featuring some amazing and brilliant websites with unusual layouts. Enjoy!!
If you like these websites you might also want to check out our previous post below.
Continuing our recent series of posts on color inspiration for web designers, today we look at yellow websites. Yellow may not be the first color that comes to mind for a website background or for a primary role in your color scheme, but as the sites featured here will show, it can help to produce interesting and vibrant websites. You will notice in this showcase that many of the sites are using black or dark gray with yellow.
Hopefully this collection will give you some ideas about using yellow in your own work.
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VectorPack.net has prepared a great Mega Bundle for designers. This is a limited time offer, available until the 12th of October. At such a great value you will not want to miss the opportunity! In this pack you will receive 650 high quality design elements and save more than $500!
Having an arsenal of quality fonts is essential for web and graphic designers. In this post we’ll feature 30 serif fonts that are free to download. Browse through the fonts that are featured and when you see something that you would like to use, click on the links to be led to the source where the font can be downloaded. As always when you are using freebies, be sure to check the terms and conditions to verify on what types of projects it can be used.
You may also be interested in: Vintage Fonts Thin Fonts Script Fonts
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